Re: IP backbone

>> Assume a single circuit provisions an area with a diameter of 200m over
>> bridged 802.11b.  As a guesstimate, say that's 300 households.  Say you
>> get  108015239ptake, or 30 households.  You only need to charge them *5
>> quid* a  month for NAT'd Internet to cover the cost of the pipe.  That's
>> half the  price of freeserve over dial-up.
>>
>> Profits go to further network development and beer.
>
> Sounds like a good plan.  If we can get enough cash behind us for a
> single  node with connection , we can expand from there.  Advertising
> need be as  simple as posting fliers though every door within range.

Yup.  We need to get an idea of how much area we can cover.

Additionally, if we can provision b/w to "cells" across PTP wireless links, 
we could reduce the cost of the Internet connection by getting a single 8Mb 
feed as opposed to 8 1Mb feeds.

josh.

Josh Howlett, Networking and Digital Communications Group,
Information Systems & Computing, University of Bristol.
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